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Rh A beautiful illustration as to how this is being accomplished is given in connection with the opening of railroads in Russia.

The first railroad that was built in Russia was a small affair and was built as an experiment. It was built by American engineers. They had charge of building the road and starting the trains to running. All went along smoothly until the day appointed for opening the railroad had arrived. Our American engineers were at their posts when the hour arrived and ready to run the first train over the railroad.

There was no very unusual excitement in the town from where the train was to start for so great an occasion, but when they got out into the open country a very unusual sight met their wondering eyes. There was a multitude that they could not number. You would think that the whole hosts of Gog and Magog, of Mesheck and Tubal, were in sight. The fact was that the whole populace had gathered at that place to see their priests stop the train from going along the railroad. Our American engineers, fearing that some scheme was on foot to wreck the